I worked on some of these games including FRWL. FRWL launched about a week before the Xbox 360 and it was hard to get any press about the game because they were covering the launch of the "next generation". EA decided not to port it to the 360 even though we did get it running on the new platforms. EON was REALLY screwed over by EA's marketing. 1) They insisted at the last minute we add multiplayer (but just for the PS2- which made no sense since it was doing shit numbers compared to Xbox Live) so the game missed Christmas. EA marketing told us we had to have multiplayer or we wouldn't be competitive with the (non-existent) Starcraft Ghost (but marketing was convinced it was launching soon!). 2) When EON did launch in February, they did a press release on THE SAME DAY announcing "Coming Soon: Goldeneye 2". What morons! They effectively said "Don't buy this piece of shit. The game you REALLY want will be here shortly." BTW, as someone whose seen the real sales figures of many games, VGChartz is pure guesswork and the people who run the site have admitted as much. I've seen their numbers be off by 10X in either direction. So anytime you read "according to VGChartz" just stop reading right there.
@@jamesatkinsonja Yes. :-) There was a saying in our group, "the only thing worse than getting no attention from marketing is getting a lot of attention from marketing". A lot of time was wasted adding features or chasing ideas that no one except marketing wanted just so they could have a checkbox for a press release. I pointed out to our boss once, "how come our company's greatest successes always include the phrase 'And everyone in marketing was against the game'?".
I would love a remastered collection of the gen 6 EA games (AUF, NF, EoN, FRWL) brought to the new consoles. I would like to play them without having to break out the old systems.
Agent Under Fire came out on PS2 before any other console, so that's partially why it sold more. Mainly though it's just due to the massive install base the PS2 had.
Plus it was the first Bond game on that generation of hardware, and they were definitely still riding the Goldeneye hype train at that point. I remember the commercial for it actually starred John Cleese as Q, which was awesome.
@MR-FREEZE 98 AUF is a great Bond game, problem is playing it today shows how awful the controls and movement is. At least on PS2. Nightfire controls a lot better thankfully.
@@nicktalksbond Yeah the default controls in AUF aren't great. I switched it over to Type 3 in the options menu, and it makes it so that the analog and camera movement are more akin to modern shooters, plus it maps Aim and Fire to L1 and R1.
I was aware that From Russia With Love flopped though I didn't expect the sales to be quite that low. I was definitely surprised to learn that Agent Under Fire is the second best-selling game in the series. I always presumed it was Nightfire for obvious reasons. I didn't even know there was separate PS2-version of Quantum of Solace. I'll be very interested to see your review of it.
If I remember right, Rare Replay has an interview with the GoldenEye dev team and they said sales peaked in the third year after the game launched. It was unattainable the Christmas period it was released because they hadn’t expected it to be so popular, sold even more the next Christmas and then even more the year after that. It was the killer app, on a console centred around couch multiplayer, for a long, long time.
In the Rare documentary on GoldenEye, they say it sold better a year later because they just couldn't get as many copies out on launch. Lots of details I can't recall, but it's on RU-vid
007 Legends crashing and burning sales wise is not unexpected as the game is a rushed mess and a huge stain on Bond video gaming. The idea of it is also so poor that I am surprised it ever made it beyond the “ideas” phase. Also, not that it really means much, but both Legends and Bloodstone had horrendous cover art.
It basically sank Eurocom. Or rather, Eurocom were sinking anyway and they just wanted to get this out of the door to satisfy their contractual obligations. Which is a dying shame. They were based in Derby,England which is where I went to uni and a lot of my game developing friends were looking at potentially applying for jobs with them when they graduated. Alas we all graduated in 2012 which was the same year Eurocom went under.
I actually don't have an issue with the concept behind Legends, we had a GoldenEye remake with Craig's Bond, why not other Bond stories? The problem was the execution and choosing stories like Moonraker and Die Another Day seemed very out of place with Craig's Bond when they could have chosen Moore's and Brosnan's less outrageous Bond films ,For Your Eyes Only and The World's Not Enough.
Very interesting video! Before this vid, I wouldn’t have thought Agent Under Fire was the best-selling 6th Gen Bond game. I would’ve said Nightfire or Everything or Nothing. After all, like you said, they were the ones with Pierce Brosnan’s mug on the cover. Maybe people didn’t realise AUF was totally Broz-free until they bought the game and started playing it, or maybe Andrew Bicknell is far more popular than I ever thought... Flash back to 2001: “Hey, you’ll never guess who played James Bond in the new game! Only Andrew blooming Bickwell!” “Andy Bicks?! Prince John from The New Adventures of Robin Hood?!” “The one and only!” “No way!” “It’s true!” “Oh man, I have got to play this!” A year later... “The new Bond game’s out!” “Wait, who’s this git on the cover?” “Pierce who? Where’s our boy Bicks?” “They replaced Andrew Bicknell? This is an outrage!” “Screw this, they’ll never top Bicknell, he was the best Bond ever. If they’re just gonna replace him with any old prat, then I’m not playing.”
Andrew Bicknell FTW!! Glad you liked the video, BenCol and you raise a really interesting point... how much does it really matter if a cinematic Bond lends his likeness to a game? Clearly it didn’t do FRWL any favours and with AUF selling SO WELL, is it okay to just have any blokes face plastered on Bond? I can’t say I’ve ever minded too much myself. There’s certain credibility that comes with having Brosnan, Craig etc represented in the games but maybe not to important for first person shooters where you rarely see the character!
i can safely say Andrew Bicknell's caemo in the last episode of Game of Thrones, sitting to fellow Bond alumni Tobias Menzies, was the only good thing, ("for me, that isch") in that sorry excuse of a series finale xD
Yeah, that would the case. As you can see from this video Bond games that came out later in the PS3/360 gen like Bloodstone and Goldeneye Reloaded sold more on the PS3 than 360.
I agree that would be a great idea. I have a couple posters from the Bond movies including On Her Majesty’s Secret Service and The Living Daylights. I know the next one I want to buy is Casino Royale, but I can’t decide if I want the poster where Vesper Lynd is in the background or if I want the one where the Casino is within the figure of a woman.
Definitely interesting way your presenting your video! I personally think it's not badly done as well! Thanks for the video to watch! You are such an awesome person because it seems like you represent the younger James Bond fans!
I never had a PS2 so it was much later that I realised the fact it was a different game altogether. Eurocom being developers gives me a lot of hope for it though! I certainly plan on getting to it eventually!
You also got to remember that back in the day many people also used to rent games before deciding to buy it at full price. Imagine the rental figures for games like GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies and Agent Under Fire. I'm still surprised at From Russia With Love getting low sales and Tomorrow Never Dies doing so well considering how poor that game is and there being no multi-player mode.
what also hurt the xbox version of from russia with love was that it was not backwards compatible with the 360 version right before the new console release. (at that time officially the only 007 game that was backwards compatible for the 360 was nightfire, and even then the driving section levels were blocked after a certain update)
Yes that’s right. I remember having all the Xbox bond games and in 2012 i discovered that only night fire worked, for like the first 2 missions and it would crash after that. Still played multiplayer with the boys though so not all bad
I do think the reason why the N64 version of TWINE did so much better was because, compared to the PS1 especially, the N64's library was pretty small and new releases by late 2000 were pretty thin on the ground (even in the US where the system was actually something resembling a success!). So basically on N64 it was a well reviewed and sought after title, while on PS1 it was just another bond game. Not to mention this was also the year the PS2 was launched just before xmas that year, the gamecube and xbox was almost another year away or even longer if you lived in europe!
I think From Russia with Love comes down to a fatigue in the Bond license in gaming, there had been a lot of Bond games released during the 6th generation. I agree with what you say about customers being content enough with the Bond games they already had. I think another factor was licensed games had started to drop in popularity around this point, gaming was becoming more focussed on its own IP’s. EA actually moved away from licensed games soon after this point. By the end of the 7th generation licensed games were out of fashion, with the 8th generation abandoning them completely.
It would not surprise me in the least if this contributed to From Russia With Love selling so poorly. Plus it did seem like it did not get nearly as much marketing as Nightfire or Everything Or Nothing did.
My best friend Christian and I loved the multiplayer mode in From Russia With Love. I was the more experienced player and was winning a string of deathmatches against him one day and remarked that I was using the Bond focus mode to achieve this. Instead of thanking me for this good advice, he proceeded to mock me by putting on an upper-crust voice and saying 'Ooooh, my name's Pushon and I use Bond focus!'.
9:32 Oh it was worse than that. Not only did Blood Stone & GoldenEye Wii launch on the same day, they launched only a couple of days (7-4 depending on region) before Call of Duty: Black Ops. Which, wouldn’t you know, was also published by Activision, in fact it’s their flagship series, and that particular COD would go on to break various sales records and become the 29th best selling video game of all time. So, yeah, not only was Blood Stone overshadowed by GoldenEye, both were overshadowed by one of the most anticipated games of the year. So no wonder it didn’t sell very well - people looking for a shooter game in November 2010 probably weren’t looking at Bond. Which raises the question: why did Activision clump all the releases so tightly together? I can understand releasing games in November to boost sales in the run up to Christmas, but still. Poor Blood Stone never had a chance.
Part Two: One year later, GoldenEye Reloaded on PS3 and Xbox 360 went up against COD: Modern Warfare 3, which broke many of the records COD: Black Ops broke the year before and ended up the 28th best selling video game of all time (just 162,500 copies short of overtaking the 27th best selling video game: Super Mario World). So it seems Activision had a habit of placing Bond up against their biggest title. I understand that time of the year in the run-up to Christmas is the best time to sell games, but seriously, did Activision not think having two shooter games released so close together would cannibalise sales?
Jeeeeeeez I had no idea about the COD conflicts too, that’s BAFFLING!! How could anyone have thought that was a good idea? It really does make it seem like Activision was just under some kind of contractual obligation. Did MGM have the Activision CEO’s family captive in a bunker or something?
If you're eagerly craving more Daniel Craig Bond, try and track down a copy of Blood Stone if you haven't already because it very much functions like a 4-5 hour Bond movie with its own story. And it really captures Daniel Craig's Bond extremely well right down from his movements to the snarky attitude.
Calvin, do you have a good Brosnan grunt impression? Also, looking at this at first I thought Eon have mismanaged the licence but since 2009 no one really had good movie games. Got my hopes up for the future, just hope its not a hitman clone.
Great video as usual, Calvin! Also surprised about FRWL sale! I never knew that a PSP version existed of that as well! I emulated it for the first time on my Mac the other day. It seems like a truncated version of the home console version but still pretty fun. All the best -@NotRogerMoore
Bloodstone is criminally underrated. Besides Goldeneye and TWINE on N64, Bloodstone is my favourite Bond experience to come back to. It's a massive game, great gameplay and story. It's a shame it's not more widely recognized.
EON is my favorite, followed by AUF, Goldeneye, Nightfire, and FRWL. Legends would have sold better if they actually got all the other Bonds voiceovers and likenesses.
To put the sales figure of GoldenEye 007 in perspective, that means that about 25% of people who owned a N64 owned GoldenEye. It was even the 3rd best selling game on the system (only Mario Kart 64 and Super Mario 64 beat it). Regarding the low sales of From Russia with Love, it was actually one of the reasons EA terminated the Bond license early and caused them to scrap a Casino Royale game they had in development. While I like the game, it's also not too odd why it didn't have huge sales numbers, as it mainly appealed to Bond-fans, while the mish-mash of modern day stars clashed quite a bit with it. Plus, like you say, it came out late in these consoles lifespan on consoles that were already very saturated with Bond games, as the Bond games had turned into an annual series by that point.
In terms of "I want a game that makes me FEEL like James Bond", this one can't be beaten. Breaking out of the FPS mold and going third person to allow the game to feel as cinematic as possible was a stroke of genius. It's so good that it could only be downhill for EA from that point forward. I remember how disappointed I was when I realized that From Russia With Love was fun but not half the game EON was.
Hey Calvin, just wondering if you have heard of the many GoldenEye 64 mods that have been created by the modding community. Goldfinger and Tomorrow Never Dies have been created with the GoldenEye engine and follow the movies. The Spy Who Loved Me 64 is also currently in development!
I would imagine the low sales of From Russia With Love were because of coming off of Rogue Agent. I didn’t find out about the Bond games until the PS3/Xbox port of Goldeneye, so I can’t say.
Honestly, I really think it was because of Rogue Agent why I didn't really care to get From Russia with Love. This was fascinating and I think you're right when you say about the first Bond games for the new consoles. Goldeneye and Agent Under Fire really were great and hopefully, if this next Bond game catches on for the PS5 then maybe we'll get more.
Great video! It's interesting to look at the Bond games through this perspective. Also I forgot that Quantum PS2 was a different game than the other versions. I'm gonna have to check it out.
@@WH250398 Nightfire in HD? I don't even know what my reaction would be I'd be too hyped (or better yet a sequel but that will DEFINITELY never happen) :(
@@TheHighFlys The licensing would just be a massive problem. There's the game and it's assets which were owned by EA, the James Bond license owned by EON, and Pierce Brosnan's likeness.
2:46 The reason why it out was because even in 2008 the PS2 and Wii were selling like hot cakes. The Wii was never on par with PS3 or Xbox 360. It's essentially a marginally upgraded GameCube with motion control, so specs wise it's more on par with the PS2. With the PS2 and Wii being the best selling consoles at the time, they had to release a port of Quantum of Solace on them.
Nightfire and Everything or Nothing are probably my faves considering I only played Goldeneye N64 when one of my two big bros would stop hogging the console so yeah. I’m soooooo excited for a new Bond game.
Goldeneye was a serious system seller. It's absolutely insane looking back that a licensed game is held in such high regard (and rightfully so). It's my favorite video game of all time. Not just Bond game. All time.
The 360 version of Quantum of Solace probably outsold the PS3 version because in 2008 the PS3 had not yet caught up to the 360 sales wise. The 360 launched about a year earlier than the PS3 and had the healthier and more diverse library of games for a while. I remember selling mine after less than a year after I had finished Metal Gear Solid 4 a couple of times to get a 360 instead and I wouldn't re-acquire a PS3 until around 2012. The sheer weight of the name Playstation as well as all the support from Japanese developers made it surpass the 360 eventually though.
There’s a case that although practically identical in level design, the Wii version of ‘Goldeneye 007’ wiimote and nunchuck controls (in my opinion the best FPS on Wii to make use of these controls) makes it stand out enough from the ‘Reloded’ versions to be counted separately. Another case is the Wii version of QofS which from what I heard from the time was a complete mess in comparison to the 360 and PS3 versions (though can’t verify this myself as have only played the 360 version).
What about James Bond The Duel on the SEGA MasterSystem? Just bought GoldenEye Reloaded on the PS3 thanks to this video. Hopefully the new game, when it arrives will be available for PS4 as well as PS5 🎮
You know I never thought of this as people typically tend to think about the movies but never the games but I think the new names bond game by IO interactive will beat these
I owned Quantum of Solace on the PS2, PS3, 360 and now PC - my favourite version because of keyboard and mouse and the ability to play at sixty frames per second - so you can thank me for those sales figures! Needless to say I think the games are underrated (as is the film itself, so feel free to have me shot against a post).
The sales of the 360/PS3 Bonds are pretty good indicators of why the current game drought happened. Nowadays, big AAA games are considered failures if they don't sell 5+ million units or more, and Blood Stone, Legends and Reloaded didn't even come close to that.
License to Kill is my favourite Bond of all time.....you can just imagine the disappointment after waiting 20 odd years of my life to get a game in anyway resembling the film to find THAT character model as Felix 😂
I picked up the FPS Quantum of Solace in a bargain bin and was surprised by it's quality. The way I remember the From Russia With Love game is that it had nice box art, but the game it self looked like it was just more of the same that had come out around that time, these third person Bond games where good, but good in a very okay kind of way, I think they needed to be more "mature" aka. juvenile with violent action, in stead of feeling like a well crafted kids toy. At the time I was enjoying the crazy Time Splitters games.
I am not too surprised at the fact From Russia With Love underperformed. Given that the movie it is based on does not have the big action set pieces that Goldfinger, Thunderball and You Only Live Twice have and thus the video game had to be changed up to accommodate them. Also, I have a feeling that the James Bond brand did take a hit to a degree, with the release of Goldeneye: Rogue Agent. I recall the reviews for it being pretty average when compared to say Grand Theft Auto or another video game where you play as a criminal. Also, FRWL was released in November which is a pretty competitive month for video games to make a profit given that many consumers are buying them for Christmas presents and there many so many titles to pick from. That said I enjoyed it for what it was. Even after I beat the game, I still came back to play both story mode and the four bonus stages quite a bit.
Calvin, I think some of the sales are a matter of consoles rather than outright favoritism. I had an N64 starting in 1998 - Goldeneye was my first - so that affected what my parents bought for me. For instance my preference is for The World is Not Enough on that console just because that was what was available to me.
13:03 My friends and I all bought this game on day one hoping it would be a proper sequel/continuation of the Goldeneye experience. While it's a good game in its own right, with the exceptions we had it was a disappointment at the time.
Thank you for this great video Calvin, really insightful. I think we could do full thesis on the lackluster sales performance of From Russia With Love. As an avid PS2 player in the 2000's and a fan of Bond, even I didn't purchase the game until the following year after release and that was only because of a friends recommendation. From Russia With Love is a fantastic game but I think third person shooters we sort of out of fashion in the mid 2000's and everyone wanted first person shooters. I think you are right regarding people been put of by a game based on an 'old' film from the 60's. All my colleague friend's believed that Pierce Brosnan was the only Bond and didn't highly rate the older films in the franchise. I also doubt it was on many children's wish lists, particularly after the disappointment of Goldeneye Rogue Agent. GoldenEye Rogue Agent was a massive disappointment especially after all the hype with marketing campaigns and double spreads in various gaming magazines. Arguably Golden Eye potentially ruined EA's run of successful Bond games. I think FRWL would have faired significantly better if it was directly released after Everything Or Nothing. That said, all long running gaming franchises become tired at some point, especially if there is a new release every year. It's unfortunate that FROL didn't reach the audience it maybe deserved. I think that was a problem with the Activision games. They were all average shooters made on a tight budget, but I think gamers were tired of 'basic' first person shooters at this point in time and Blood Stone was over shadowed by the GoldEye Wii cash in. Activision's Bond titles didn't really do anything innovative and as a result were fairly bland experiences with sales gradually falling release after release. I'm looking forward to the new 007 game project by the Hitman Studio. Hitman is a prime example of a game franchise that outstayed it's welcome and became unpopular to some extent. After a short break and a franchise reset, the new Hitman games were a breath of fresh air. Thanks to fantastic games like Uncharted, The Last of Us and the new Tombraider Trilogy, third person games are cool once again. I for one cannot wait for the next chapter of Bond games.
The mid and then late 2000's saw a pretty big revival of third person shooters though with Resident Evil 4, Gears of War and Uncharted and third person shooters went on to become quite big in the 7th gen. With the From Russia With Love game I think you're right, it's more a case of that being a game based on a much older film than things that were popular at the time like Nightfire, Everything or Nothing and the more action oriented Bond games of the first half of the 6th gen. Despite owning Nightfire and EON I didn't buy FRWL when I really should've done. The fact it also came out after Goldeneye Rogue Agent didn't help.
Do you still plan on reviewing the PS2 Quantum game Calvin? I first played through it during the pandemic. Really enjoyed it. Od love to hear your thoughts 👍
So in other words Calvin went down a rabbit hole and this is why this video exists. Also, 007 Legends was probably also hurt by the movies they decided to cover. Die Another Day is one of the most critically panned movies in the entire series so it’s a mystery as to why they chose to cover it.
If Rogue Agent didn't have Goldeneye in its title and all the momentum gathered by the three previous Bond games, it would be dead last on this list, let me tell ya. There are only two good things about this piece of double-taking pigeon crap : the Ken Adam-inspired set design and Christopher Lee coming back to do the voice acting for Scaramanga !
I hope you could one day give Goldeneye Xbla beta a look at , not sure if your computer can handle Xenia but hopefully it’s easy enough to set up if you are interested.
I have played both Night fire and Everything Or Nothing recently. I love both but will place Everything Or Nothing above Night fire as it has everything you want to do as James Bond while Night fire has less variety. But I am surprised it sold less well than Agent Under Fire and Night fire(probably it was hard to compete against GTA San Andreas etc in 2004). Well still pretty good sales.
Thanks for this! I had a Gamecube and knew it always undersold compared to the PS2 versions, but didn't realize by how much. Is the Wii version of QoS closer to the PS3/360 versions? I thought it would've been closer to the PS2 one, as was par during that era.
I recently played and finished Bloodstone. I thought it was phenomenal, and as you said, sadly underrated. I'm currently playing the Gamecube version of Everything or Nothing and have been really enjoying it. Goldeneye on the N64 was ground breaking at its time and just happened to be a Bond game. It probably would have been big no matter what skin it was wrapped in.... IMO...
Definately some surprising entries here. My experience with From Russia With Love was not a good one, you see I only played it on the PSP, and little did I know, until recently, the car driving levels were cut out of it. But worst of all, was the horrendous control layout and difficulty aiming etc. As far as my most nostalgic memories of a Bond game, other than Goldeneye of course, is Agent Under Fire.
Well, to be fair on TWINE's sales, when you brought up that the PSOne version was more circulated, could that be that since you live in the UK? If I recall, Nintendo has historically STRUGGLED in the United Kingdom, with some exceptions (like the Wii and Switch). Only better than XBOX progress in Japan. Meanwhile, N64 did fairly well in the United States. Sure, lower than the PlayStation still. But I found many people in the States with a 64 or almost anything Nintendo pre-Wii, compared to the UK when I lived there for a little bit (and based on what other UK based gamers have said before then).
Yeah, it wasn’t until about 2003 that Nintendo actually opened a UK subsidiary to manage their releases. Throughout the N64 era they relied on a company called THE Games to handle UK distribution, and apparently they didn’t do the best job. But I think Nintendo had a lot of success with their handheld consoles in the UK, though that may be due to a the fact that there was very little competition.
I have two questions for you Calvin: 1) For the setting for the new James Bond game. Do you think this game need to be set in the Cold War 1950's-1960's like the Ian Fleming books or do you want it to be set in the 21st Century? 2) I know there is no way to bring back Christopher Lee Francisco Scaramanga due to his death, but I think David Bateson (a.k.a. the Face and voice of Agent 47 in the Hitman games) would be perfect to play the role Francisco Scaramanga if he is going to be in the new James Bond game. Do you picture Agent 47 voice and likeness as Francisco Scaramanga?
GOLDENEYE N64 best gamer ever in year 1997 awesome game for this year's,for me best James Bond Game ever and best ego shooter gamer together with Perfect Dark N64 for this time.
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My dad got me Goldeneye roughe agent. He thought it was a game based on the goldeneye. We were both very confused
I think part of the reason that Quantum of Solace sold so well was because it was being hyped as the game to finally dethrone goldeneye as the best bond game. The 3 year wait for a new game also helped that. Surprised that it sold more than Goldeneye Reloaded
I wonder if the charts apply all the versions of the games and all regions to one, as some games have technically multiple versions on the same console (read: the SCES SLES whathaveyou product code with PS1 and PS2, as an example the European English version of TND, French version of TND and German version of TND are all technically their own games). Out of those retail games, I have 9 different retail releases of TND, 4 different retail releases of PS1 TWINE (surprised it didn't sell some more), 3 different retail releases of 007 Racing (surprised it didn't also sell some more), 2 retail releases of PS2 AUF, one retail release of PS2 NF and one for PS2 G:RE (can concur, this one somewhat sucked, first level is semi-cool though). (I also own 4 007 games as promotional discs. Also bunch of stuff related to TND.)
The fact that of all things Rogue Agent outsold FRWL is particularly baffling to me. I think I recall getting both around 2006 or so and now Rogue Agent just collects dust on my shelf. I wonder how the stats for the PSP version of FRWL fare on all of these. I recall unlike say, GBA and DS versions of various Bond games, PSP FRWL is actually a straight port of the console version. Tho given that the PSP wasn't nearly as popular as Nintendo's handhelds, I imagine it wouldn't have been much to boost it from it's current spot. I think another thing that probably boosted Rogue Agent was the fact it was one of the first console Bond games with online features from what I remember. EON did have online but given that game's lacking multiplayer in comparison to it's beefy main story, I imagine a fair few were interested in a more standard Bond FPS with online capabilities.
Hey Calvin, are you gonna review the PC-version of Nightfire, the PS2-version & DS-version of Quantum of Solace and the DS-versions of Blood Stone and GoldenEye?
I wish I played these games. I am absolutely useless at games. If I had these, I would be beaten before I even open the box. But one fabulous review Calvin.
Personally I've always enjoyed the 3rd person Bond games the most. Everything or Nothing easily the best, along with FRWL on PS2. I actually enjoyed Tomorrow Never Dies on PS1! I never got to play Quantum on PS2 :O
its just a shame Nightfire sold best on the console with the worst version of its awesome multiplayer (having 2 controller ports instead of 4 hurts this, plus if I'm not mistaken 4 bot spots on PS2 as opposed to 6 on at least the GameCube) since I rank it above Goldeneye for that feature (I'll go into my bomb and fireproof bunker now...) but the fact 007 legends sold poorly is excellent since its just COD with 007 characters which was crap
Good point! Think that’s why the GameCube was me and my friends default multiplayer console despite a couple of them having PS2’s. You’re right too about the bots! I’d forgotten that was the case on the PS2 version!
@@calvindyson it’s probably a thing about the fact the gamecube was somehow more powerful than the PS2 and also the 4 player capabilities, I mean the Xbox might have done the same wouldn’t surprise me if it did but I knew nobody who had the original Xbox just the PS2 and the odd one like myself who either had the gamecube too or just that
Have you tried the 007 game on the original GameBoy. Its more of a adventure type Bond game in the vein of Zelda. It feels very unusual among all the FPS Bond game
When you mentioned FRWL I was gonna say i think Goldeneye Rogue Agent reception may have killed interest like you somewhat mention when you get to GRA. Had the not produce that game and just had FRWL follow EON I think it would've been a better sold game . As both of them had similarities in game play.
I agree. I think Rouge Agent sold well purely due to the name and coming after EON. Given how awful it was I could see people being put off FRWL which is a shame as that was much better.
@@jamesatkinsonja I agree, plus Everything Or Nothing was suppose to come out in 2003 across all systems(the Gameboy Advance version did release first in the fall of 2003 and the console versions where held up in development until March 2004). It is sad that From Russia With Love did not sell as well as it could have. I blame Goldeneye: Rogue Agent for souring people on James Bond based video games and as Calvin mentioned EA picking a film with fewer action scenes to adapt into a video game likely hurt it. Plus in 2005, it seemed like the entire gaming world was saturated with movie tie in games so that might have had an effect as well.
@@user-si9fx4xb6v Yeah, it seems circumstances worked against it. Shame as I'd have loved more classic bond games in the same style [such as Roger Moore one]
